I have written a script to parse a text file into Quark .xtg format for my newspaper. Everything is working except one regex snippet, which seems to be correct to me. The perl code in question is: 
grep s/(<Bz8>)([^ ]*)/$1$2<\$>/, @FILE;

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An example of the text to be parsed is: 
<*ra0*p(9,-9,0,9,0,0,g,"U.S. English")><Bz8>ATTN: Out of school youth 
+16-21. Get help to finish high school and/or find job training, and g
+et a good job. Call "Options": ask for Kathy M. at EASTCONN 111-1111.

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If I'm not mistaken, my code should return: 
<*ra0*p(9,-9,0,9,0,0,g,"U.S. English")><Bz8>ATTN:<$> Out of school you
+th 16-21. Get help to finish high school and/or find job training, an
+d get a good job. Call "Options": ask for Kathy M. at EASTCONN 111-11
+11.

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But instead it returns: 
<*ra0*p(9,-9,0,9,0,0,g,"U.S. English")><Bz8><$>ATTN: Out of school you
+th 16-21. Get help to finish high school and/or find job training, an
+d get a good job. Call "Options": ask for Kathy M. at EASTCONN 111-11
+11.

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Am I doing it wrong? I am a relative newb, so I may have just misread the documentation. Any help in this regard is much appreciated.

20040904 Edit by castaway: Changed title from 'Regular expression hell'

In reply to Parsing Quark file with RegEx by rael9

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